Speculating Canada: Canadian Horror, Science Fiction, and Fantasy

August 20, 2012

Discovering the Canadian Fantastic

Editorial by Derek Newman-Stille When I was younger, and particularly when I was an adolescent, I remember searching for fiction that really spoke to me. I had an intense love of science fiction and read as much of it as I could. But there was something distinctly lacking in the science fiction I was reading. All of the utopian and...

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August 19, 2012

Quote – All Stories Start Somewhere

“You must remember, all stories start somewhere.” -Drew Hayden Taylor – The Night Wanderer

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August 18, 2012

Quote – Lost Without Memory

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August 17, 2012

This Werewolf Wears Pumps

A review of Margaret Atwood’s Update on Werewolves in Thriller Suite: New Poems (available online at Wattpad at http://www.wattpad.com/5346412-thriller-suite-new-poems-update-on-werewolves ) By Derek Newman-Stille Margaret Atwood’s poem Update on Werewolves explores the shifting culture of werewolves over time. In a lot of the werewolf cinema and literature of the later 20th century, werewolves were predominantly male and embodied the expression of...

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August 16, 2012

Upcoming Interview with Ian Rogers on Thursday, August 23.

As a bit of a birthday present to myself, I had the opportunity to interview Ian Rogers, a local Peterborough author of horror/ urban dark fantasy. It was a great intersection of two things that I enjoy: Peterborough, and Urban Dark Fantasy, so I thought I would post it on my birthday as a bit of a present to myself....

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August 16, 2012

Quote – All Linked and Woven Together

“You know… we’re linked even though I can’t reach you. Me, you, the sun and moon, we’re all woven together.” -Alette J. Willis – Thought and Memory (in Tesseracts Nine. Edge, Calgary, 2005)

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August 15, 2012

Anonymous in the Age of Face Recognition Software

A review of: E.L. Chen’s A Safety of Crowds (in Tesseracts Fifteen: A Case of Quite Curious Tales. Edge, 2011). By Derek Newman-Stille E.L. Chen’s A Safety of Crowds explores the anonymity of modern society and the idea that one can be lost in a crowd and can lose oneself in a crowd of people. Chen explores two women who...

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August 14, 2012

Quote – Letting People be Themselves

“You are what you are… as we are what we are. Let it be so.” -Charles de Lint – Mulengro (Orb 2003)

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August 13, 2012

Performing the Monster

A Review of Ian Rogers’ Temporary Monsters (Burning Effigy Press, Toronto: 2009) By Derek Newman-Stille Peterborough author Ian Rogers’ Temporary Monsters is a novella about illusion and performance, the insubstantiality of life and the performativity of everyday existence. Rogers sets his story of monstrosity amongst a performative group of people, actors and actresses, who need to be ‘on’ while on-screen...

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August 12, 2012

Quote – Media and Trash Media

“In my experience, the only thing that works faster than the media is the trash media. Though sometimes I can’t even tell the difference between the two.” -Ian Rogers – Temporary Monsters (Burning Effigy Press, 2009)

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